The Royal Scam
The Royal Scam by STEELY DAN at WA Tunes. MPN: MCD12051. Hurry! Limited time offer. Offer valid only while supplies last. This scam went off without a hitch, reaching #15 in 1976 and hitting the charts with Kid Charlemagne and The Fez . The Dan are at their wry, sardonic best here, with gems like Green Earrings and Haitian Divorce -and this reissue has complete lyrics and original artwork for the first time since the album's original release! Ever the primary conceit of mainstays Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, 1976's The Royal Scam marks the first time the Steely Dan duo actually owned up to the fact. Musically,
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This scam went off without a hitch, reaching #15 in 1976 and hitting the charts with Kid Charlemagne and The Fez . The Dan are at their wry, sardonic best here, with gems like Green Earrings and Haitian Divorce -and this reissue has complete lyrics and original artwork for the first time since the album's original release! Ever the primary conceit of mainstays Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, 1976's The Royal Scam marks the first time the Steely Dan duo actually owned up to the fact. Musically, it's their edgiest, most guitar-driven record (thanks to Becker and a murderer's row of session greats that includes Larry Carlton, Elliot Randall, Dean Parks, and Denny Dias). Lyrically, the songs cut an ever-sardonic, presciently discomforting slice of modern life that was a couple decades ahead of the game (who else was extolling the virtues of condom-couture, à la "The Fez," mid-Me Decade?). Though it didn't garner the radio attention of Aja, its more jazz-suffused, multiplatinum follow-up, Scam boasts a diverse, occasionally muscular musical rhetoric and some of the Dan's most telling portraits (the deranged, yet all-too-familiar killer of "Don't Take Me Alive," "Kid Charlemagne"'s drug-culture celebrity, the tropical convenience of a "Haitian Divorce"). Small wonder many Dan fans consider it their best. --Jerry McCulley
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Additional Information
| Manufacturer: | Geffen |
| Brand: | STEELY DAN |
| Model: | 2297235 |
| Part Number: | MCD12051 |
| Publisher: | Geffen |
| Studio: | Geffen |
| MPN: | MCD12051 |
| UPC: | 008811205126 |
| EAN: | 0008811205126 |
| Item Weight: | 0.21 pounds |
| Item Size: | 5.59 x 0.47 x 0.47 inches |
| Package Weight: | 0.15 pounds |
| Package Size: | 4.8 x 0.4 x 0.4 inches |
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